[PRCo] Re: (No

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

Boris!  Boris!!!  Boris where are you???

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From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of John
Swindler
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 8:13 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: (No 
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:06:32 -0700



There is also a story circulating that McKinney Ave. was offered an ex. 
Dallas PCC car and turned down the offer.  Not interested in 'a trolley
that 
looked like a bus'.  (think this came from the old trolleycar.com site)




>From: "Ken & Tracie" <ktjosephson at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>CC: "Charles Brown" <Charlesebrown at webtv.net>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: (No 
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:06:32 -0700
>Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 12:06:43 -0400
>
>Hi Fred,
>
>I recently had an exchange with Sherman concerning the surviving
ex-Dallas
>PCCs. I told him it wasn't fair to loyal Texans that a bunch of New
England
>Yankees were hoarding all those "Texas Rangers."
>
>Sherman responded that as a native of Texas, he would love to see one
of 
>the
>cars come "home", but barn space was already an issue.
>
>BTW, if Seashore believes those cars (and the five surplus flat roof
>"Tremonts") are worth $50,000 as they sit, maybe I could ask and get
>$850,000 for our current house.
>
>I still like your idea of painting one of the cars in a half Dallas,
half
>Boston paint scheme. It's a good idea no Speedrail Curvesiders
survived, or
>we'd have to paint it in FOUR color schemes.
>
>I once asked somebody at OERM if they would consider painting one of
their
>five "Hollywood" cars in a Portland paint scheme. I was told that no,
only 
>a
>car that actually served in Portland could be restored as a Portland
car. I
>accepted that stance until I found out they are planning to paint one
of
>their other "duplicates" to represent a member of that series which
served
>elsewhere, though the particular car being modified never served there.

>Plus
>they are in no hurry to repaint their P.E. Birney which was loaned to 
>Tucson
>back into it's correct colors.
>
>Seriously, last I heard, Sherman is still alive (he's about the same
age as
>our Midnight, who is sixteen and showing no signs of slowing down.) I
have
>some video of Sherman, courtesy of Jim Holland.
>
>We are going to go to Phoenix later this month. I plan to make an
>appointment to visit the small trolley museum there and check out the 
>latest
>work on the new light rail line. When we were there during October,
they
>were dismantling the trackage on the former railroad R.O.W. and
prepping 
>the
>corridor near the university.
>
>K.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 8:34 AM
>Subject: [PRCo]
>
>
> > No, guys,  this URL has nothiing whatsoever to do with Pittsburgh or
> > western Pennsylvania.  It will lead you to McKinney Avenue Transit
> > Authority's web site.
> >
> > Two things intrigued me.
> >
> > First, look at the news.   Looks like they have permission to tear
up
> > another city street in Dallas and extend their tracks again!   To
the
> > best of my knowledge, they are the only part-voluntary, part-paid
> > regularly scheduled transit system in the U. S. that is subsidized
by
> > a regular transit authority.   In this case, DART covers their
losses
> > so they charge no fare.  But they do accept donations.
> >
> > Also take a look at the ASK SHERMAN tab.   It's rather cute if you
> > fancy felines.
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.mata.org/index.shtml
> >
> >
>
>
>